DBMS > LMDB vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. RisingWave vs. Sadas Engine

System Properties Comparison LMDB vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. RisingWave vs. Sadas Engine

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Name

Description

A high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database library

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.09
Rank	#121	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.64
Rank	#238	Overall
	#110	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
	#157	Relational DBMS

Website

www.symas.com/symas-embedded-database-lmdb

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.risingwave.com/database

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

www.lmdb.tech/doc

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/intro

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Symas

Microsoft

RisingWave Labs

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2011

2014

2022

2006

Current release

0.9.32, January 2024

1.2, September 2023

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Rust

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

hosted

Docker
Linux
macOS

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

Standard SQL-types and JSON

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl

JavaScript

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

JavaScript

UDFs in Python or Java

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Users and Roles

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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